When we hear about ICE agents and abductions, it’s usually about some masked federal workers arresting undocumented folks or even sometimes harassing actual US citizens. However, for one agent in Plymouth, Minnesota, the situation was flipped around, as he became the one being kidnapped. It all began when agents for Homeland Security under ICE were waiting in an unmarked SUV to confront one Nigerian Oluwadamilola Ogooluwa Bamigboye, as his immigration status was in question. However, it wasn’t until he and his colleague, Rekeya Lionesha Lee Frazier, arrived at the apartment complex where the agents were that things turned up a notch.
While the MPR News report does not detail whether Frazier and Bamigboye were a romantic couple, the man and woman clearly knew each other, as they arrived at the scene together in a Jeep. Bamigboye spotted the unmarked SUV and allegedly put on a mask before the agents approached the Jeep to begin questioning. However, Bamigboye suddenly dove from the passenger seat into the back of the vehicle and told Frazier to book it and drive away from the feds. The agents weren’t about to let their target get away, so one jumped into the front seat and tried to keep Frazier from driving. What happened next was absolutely chaotic.
Frazier floored it, taking off with Bamigboye still in the back seat and the HSI agent in the front. The agent told her to stop and tried to put the Jeep in park, but she threatened to crash the car if he didn’t stay put. He “was in fear that he was being abducted,” as Bamigboye called 911, and Frazier eventually drove to the New Hope Police Department with the agent. Once the madness was over, the couple had been arrested. According to the police report, Bamigboye claims he has PTSD from being kidnapped in Nigeria, which is why he reacted in the way he did with the agent.
“Kidnapping law enforcement is usually a bad a idea,” remarks a Redditor, and he’s exactly right. However, plenty of other online commenters feel that what happened to the HSI agent was definitely ironic, considering how usually HSI agents are the ones doing the abducting, not the other way around. In the end, though, it “sounds like they did everything about as well as one can,” concludes a user. “[They] drove to a police station where they could confirm the authenticity of claims of masked men wih guns.”
